Upcoming Online Events
Saturday, April 17, 9:00am - 12pm
A NEW EARTH: 2021
A NEW EARTH: 2021
A NEW EARTH 2021:
Engaging in the Vision and Wisdom of Hildegard of Bingen
Join us for a morning of contemplative inquiry and dialogue with one of the most remarkable women of all time. Saint Hildegard of Bingen, Master of Sacred Wisdom, is celebrated as the female patron of the environment.
Known as a master of healing and visionary arts, Hildegard of Bingen gave birth to a unique mode of women's monasticism and has left us an inexhaustible legacy of spiritual riches.
This gathering will be an exploration of the legacy of this Teutonic Prophetess who still speaks with great timeliness. Her courageous ability to discern the signs of the times, her love for creation, her feminine reading of sacred mysteries, her poetry and her visionary prophecy invite the rebirth of such spiritual power.
In a time of global awareness of the radical need to "care for our Common Home", let us enter into an urgent conversation with the medieval Sybil of the Rhine and explore Hildegard's spirituality to inform The Great Work of our time.
About the Presenter:
Kathleen Deignan, CND, is a Congregation of Notre Dame Sister and Professor of Religious and Environmental Studies at Iona College, where she directs the Deignan Institute for Earth and Spirit.
GreenFaith Fellow, she studied under Father Thomas Berry at Fordham University. Kathleen is composer in residence with Schola Ministries, a sacred arts initiative that has produced a dozen collections of her original sacred songs.
Her books include Thomas Merton: A Book of Hours and Thomas Merton: Writings on Nature. She is one of the Founding Conveners of the Thomas Berry Forum for Ecological Dialogue.
Date: Saturday, April 17th, 9am - 12pm
Fee: $30.00; partial and full scholarships available upon request.
Mail checks made out to "Stillpoint"
To: 1625 Huntley Road, Bellingham, WA 98226
If you choose to use PayPal, please add "April event" to the "Add a note".
Registration required in order to receive the zoom link.
Known as a master of healing and visionary arts, Hildegard of Bingen gave birth to a unique mode of women's monasticism and has left us an inexhaustible legacy of spiritual riches.
This gathering will be an exploration of the legacy of this Teutonic Prophetess who still speaks with great timeliness. Her courageous ability to discern the signs of the times, her love for creation, her feminine reading of sacred mysteries, her poetry and her visionary prophecy invite the rebirth of such spiritual power.
In a time of global awareness of the radical need to "care for our Common Home", let us enter into an urgent conversation with the medieval Sybil of the Rhine and explore Hildegard's spirituality to inform The Great Work of our time.
About the Presenter:
Kathleen Deignan, CND, is a Congregation of Notre Dame Sister and Professor of Religious and Environmental Studies at Iona College, where she directs the Deignan Institute for Earth and Spirit.
GreenFaith Fellow, she studied under Father Thomas Berry at Fordham University. Kathleen is composer in residence with Schola Ministries, a sacred arts initiative that has produced a dozen collections of her original sacred songs.
Her books include Thomas Merton: A Book of Hours and Thomas Merton: Writings on Nature. She is one of the Founding Conveners of the Thomas Berry Forum for Ecological Dialogue.
Date: Saturday, April 17th, 9am - 12pm
Fee: $30.00; partial and full scholarships available upon request.
Mail checks made out to "Stillpoint"
To: 1625 Huntley Road, Bellingham, WA 98226
If you choose to use PayPal, please add "April event" to the "Add a note".
Registration required in order to receive the zoom link.
Saturday, May 15th, 9:00am - 12pm
Learning the Language of Loss
Learning the Language of Loss
You are warmly invited to join us for a 3-hour online workshop that is a collaborative offering between Sarah Peterson, from Clear Mourning and Elizabeth Johnson from The Peaceful Presence Project.
The focus of this offering will be multifold: an exploration of how we can show up differently in the face of grief; why avoidance around difficult conversations and interactions blocks opportunities for growth, resiliency and wonder.
Participants will be offered tangible tools and language for bridging the painful disconnect that oftentimes accompanies all forms of loss and death.
About the Presenters:
Sarah Peterson is a licensed clinical social worker with years of experience at the beside of hospice patients. Having completed her studies at The Sacred Art of Living, Center for Spiritual Living, she has a paradigm for being with suffering. After the tragic death of her daughter, Sarah founded Clear Mourning and is the Executive Director of this non-profit. Clear Mourning’s mission is to shift the culture of grief through innovation, support and awareness. Her private therapy practice in Bend, OR, focuses on those in grief and major life transition.
Elizabeth Johnson, an end of life doula and graduate of the Anamcara Project, is the Executive Director of The Peaceful Presence Project, an organization committed to the cultivation of death and grief literate communities. Her personal and profound confrontation with loss opened a genuine curiosity around the power of death and sorrow in our individual lives. Elizabeth has more than a decade of facilitation experience, leading dozens of groups and individuals into the challenging and revelatory territories of self-exploration and truth seeking. She is also one of the contributors to "Endnotes", see below for more information.
Date and Time: Saturday, May 15th, from 9:00am - 12pm
Fee: $30.00; Partial or full scholarships available upon requests.
Mail checks made out to "Stillpoint"
To: 1625 Huntley Road, Bellingham, WA 98226
If you choose to use PayPal, please add "May event" to the "Add a note".
Registration required in order to receive the zoom link.
"endnotes" is an evidence-based, holistic end of life planning workbook.
It is available through Peaceful Presence website.
For more information about this workbook, click here.
Saturday, June 19th Outdoor event at Stillpoint, 9am - 12pm
Let the Land Call to You:
an exploration of healing through connection with land
Let the land call to you:
an exploration of healing through connection with land
This solstice gathering on Juneteenth, the national celebration of the end of slavery, is an opportunity to recognize the dance between liberation and the pain of our individual and collective histories that still lives in our bodies.
During our time together we will explore what happens when we allow our struggles to meet the embrace of the earth. We will work with the elements of creation for healing by honoring and connecting to the land and nature as our guide to wholeness.
This special event is an invitation to remember the struggles of our lives, our ancestors, and others in our country’s past and present. From this place of remembering, we then to come to the deep well of the earth to drink and renew ourselves so we can meet what is needed and hear what we are called to do by the great mother.
Please note that we are plans are that this event will be taking place outdoors at Stillpoint. We will be abiding by the WA state COVID guidelines for outdoor gatherings in June.
Facilitator:
Summer Starr is devoted to relationship with the land. As a healer, dancer, poet and mystic, she finds the wisdom of creation a wellspring for the human heart and enjoys encouraging others in developing this connection. She is one of the contributors to the recently released book, "Whiteness Is Not an Ancestor, Essay on Life and Lineage by White Women", edited by Lisa Iversen.
Date and Time: Saturday, June 19th, 9am - 12pm
Place: Stillpoint, 1625 Huntley Road, Bellingham
Fee: $30.00, partial or full scholarships available upon request.
If paying by check, please make it out to "Stillpoint"
You can pay on the day or mail payment to: 1625 Huntley Road, Bellingham, WA 98226
If you choose to use PayPal, please add "June event" to the "Add a note".
